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The HN algo is intentionally obscure to prevent people from gaming the system. For example, if there's a bunch of traffic going directly to the discussion link, it will heavily pun…

Depends on a whole bunch of factors. Location, growth stage, product industry, and funding are the main influencers. Location - Assuming you're not based somewhere obscure, there'l…

16 years and counting.

Recruiters (internal and external) rarely actually look at any of your personal projects. The more experienced you are, the less relevant your personal projects are to a recruiter …

It can be both too. It's entirely possible to protect a companies best interests and promote employee well-being.

Yeah I read it but it doesn't help me understand why it's considered bad UX, hence why I asked for clarification.

>Please get rid of that top panel.... This is just bad UX. How so? It displays useful info at a glance. Where's the bad UX?

The most valuable thing to employers is decent experience with a reputable employer in the US. If you're serious about the move, learn as much as you can about the various visa opt…

OP - Without a work visa or other right to work in the UK already established, you're not gonna have a good time. Tech vacancies are dropping in the UK and QA vacancies are one of …

>Cut your take home pay expectations by 60-70% as the government will take a huge chunk of your income. 20%-30% on average. >Assume you'll struggle to heat your home because the UK…

>Often times we assume that hiring an L8 at faang is perfect for a startup and thats usually not the case Agreed. In my experience that's almost always a bad idea if that L8 hasn't…

The startup world has been my exclusive focus for almost twenty years now so I stand by my position. Granted if you have fewer than five years of experience then it's harder to dem…

>That’s why more people are showcasing their work through portfolios. And that’s what recruiters actually look for. Not sure where this assumption is coming from. Most recruiters a…

Growing companies from ~10 to ~200+ has been my bread and butter for almost 20yrs now. A few relatively universal observations: 1. As sloaken said, your documentation of processes …

> In the process, they may bypass the valuable experience of struggling through early tasks and learning from their mistakes. Students, I worry, could simply become an intermediary…

>the carve-out only protects people inside the US. Speaking as someone based in Europe, that's a detail that doesn't go unnoticed. I'm not sure an American company prioritising the…

If your thought process is "someone should make X..." then your next thought should be "I should try and make X...". Go give it a go and as a minimum, you'll learn something about …

We'd announce it on here and on twitter but we managed it on meetup.com so if you were a part of the HN London meetup group, you got emailed every time the next event got announced…

Nice! I'll keep an eye out for it. One small bit of feedback is that it would be useful to see an 'other' category as the four roles defined seem a bit limiting.

There's a lot of references in the report to companies "reporting difficulties in filling vacancies" with no clarity on what constitutes 'difficulties'. Also, the data notes that 8…

Really cool tool. Would love to see similar analysis on the 'Who's Hiring' threads. How is the 'Want Remote' criteria assessed?

Unfortunately we shut it down when COVID hit. I think there's a smaller, less formal HN meetup still happening occasionally but I'm not affiliated with it.

>it seems as though a 17-year-old in a tech role would be unable to access a corporate network if it was protected by a VPN. That's not what the law states. The actual law states .…

I once approached Woz about potentially speaking at Hacker News London, fully expecting my email to be completely ignored. A few days later, he actually responded enthusiastically …

I get how your solution solves for on-device cheating tools. Unfortunately, it's really not difficult to have a second device (even just your phone) transcribing audio and processi…